Between 1995 and 1999, the number of indictable crimes recorded in Ireland dropped by 21 per cent and the daily average prison population rose by 33 per cent. The Government has claimed that a causal relationship exists here: more prisoners means less crime. The purpose of this paper is to map recent trends in the use of prison and to explore the interaction between rates of crime and rates of ...

This article resumes part of the doctoral research titled The social pedagogical effectiveness of imprisonmentII, which was conducted from 1997 to 2001 in the Postgraduate Program in Education at Universidade de São Paulo and defended on August 21st, 2001. The pertinence of reflecting again on the subject is due to the approval of the National Guidelines for Education in Prison Facilities, Reso...

in islam, every person who knowingly abandons one of the obligatory acts or does one of the forbidden acts regarded as sinful and must be punished. to sentence some body to prison is one of the criminal rules in the islam criminal system for the offenders. there are three types of imprisonment for the offenders: 1- to put in jail is sometimes considered as a penance 2-imprisoning is sometimes c...